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editorial report". i'm paul gigot. hunter biden was indicted in los angeles thursday on nine new federal charges with the justice department accusing the first son of willfully failing the file and pay his taxes on time. hunter's9 latest legal woes come as republicans get set to move forward with vote to formal oohize their impeachment inwiry into his father, president joe biden, next week, with speaker mike johnson calling the move a necessary step. "wall street journal" column is dan dan henninger if editorial board members kyle peterson ask kate bachelder odell. abby if lowell, hunter's attorney, says the charges are wrong, hunter's innocent, and they would never have been brought if his name weren't biden. >> well, you've got to put up a defense of some sort, don't you? and that's abby lowell's defense for hunter biden who evaded taxes for four years. isn't it kind of an irony that

the biden administration is asking for a lot more money for the internal revenue service to chase people who are evading their taxes, and when gets caught in the net that exists? hunter biden. hunter -- if you -- i would urge people, read the text of of the indictment. it is a stunning document. i mean, it is really an incredible bill of particulars. and it does go into the details of how hunter was making his money and the deals with burisma and ukraine, the romanians and the chinese, the chinese companies that were paying money to him or to his counterparts, all of which he was putting in the bank and then simply declining to pay his taxes. and politically, i would say polls have been running between 60-70% that most people do not want either biden or trump to run for president. this ought to push that number about a 70%. i think it's a big political problem for joe biden. paul: kate, just on the merits here, this, of course, was not

the original part of the plea bargain that was struck at fest first -- at first between the justice e department and hunterrer biden and, in fact, it only occurred after two irs whistleblowers brought a lot of information to the fore. do you think the whistle blow ors were decisive here in turning and putting the pressure on the administration and the justice department to do something? >> i think they absolutely were. mine, look -- i mean, look, that plea deal fell if apart in a courtroom, and now we're back with this 50-page indictment, 3 felonies, 6 misdemeanors, and as dan said, just an exceptional bill of particulars. spending money on hotels, girlfriends, cars, things like this. so it looks like even though it was supposed to just go away with that plea deal, obviously, the particulars are much more damning than we were original he led to believe, and the whistleblowers, i think, were a huge element of that. paul: that changed the politics of it, kyle, but let's talk

about the political implications for joe biden's election campaign. dan says he thinks it's a problem. is it or will people, voters compartmentalize and say, well, that's hunter, and it's a shame, and he was a drug addict at the time which he's acknowledged,s but this has no impact on the president in. >> i think they compartmentalize the addiction issues, but the problem is that the lines are getting blurrier all the time because president biden promised the public in 2020 when he campaigned that he knew nothing about hunter's business, this was no involvement, there was no transactions. it was arm's length. and we already know that some of the things that he said then are not true. the question in my mind is how much evidence they are going to build ab the connections that are, that house investigators are trying to find and make between hunter biden and his business dealings and joe biden. mine, they've already shown that joe biden was on phone calls and went to dinner with hunter's business associates, and i think

a fair question for him if we get to these 2024 debates and they're up on stage is you told the public something in 2020 that wasn't true. can you clarify, and why did you lie about that? paul: kate, now the house is moving towards an impeachment inquiry. they want to formalize the vote, i guess, this week. and my information says they may be headed to a vote on impeachment sometime in the new year and maybe a senate trial shortly thereafter, as a early as a possibly february. what about this inquiry vote? do they have the votes, and is this whole exercise a good idea? >> well, i know they're trying to get the votes, and i think that they might round them up. i think there are some political liabilities here to consider. we think about some of the more result potential members in joe biden districts, mike garcia, jen finish. [inaudible] do they want to attach their names to this when joe biden's not going to be removed from office, we know he's not going to be convicted at the trial.

republicans are making the argument they need the inquire reto get more retails and get to the bottom of all this. it -- details and get to the bottom of all this. but i do think maybe it's worth being skeptical of anything where the strategy is not to remove him from office and is something lesser and more amorphous. paul: yeah, dan, briefly, the senate's never going to convict -- >> no. paul: -- an impeachment vote. so why go through the motions here on this? >> well, there's a lot of pressure inside the house republican caucus to do this. finish i think something like this hunter revelation mix it more likely and even -- makes it more likely and even plausible they can pursue an impeachment inquiry. it's a two-edged sword. joe biden's numbers have been falling in the billions, it seems unlikely he can get reelected on the bay access of what he's to been going and the question is would an impeachment inquiry create some sympathy for

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♪ >> if you're up on capitol hill and you believe in national security, there should be a genuine concern about what happens if you just let putin go, if you just let him have ukraine. >> american troops fighting russian troops if he moves into other parts of nato. paul: the white house warned of the consequences in ukraine and beyond with as piping's supplemental -- president biden's supplemental aid request remained stalled on capitol hill. we'll have much more with our panel, but first, let's bring in fox news senior strategic analyst and retired four-star general jack keane for a look at the stakes on the ground in ukraine as a winter begins. general, welcome. so what's the state of play in

ukraine after the stalemate, i guess, in the counterto fence we've? or has russia a begun to take advantage and move in its own fencive? -- to ten we've? >> well, the fact is the weather is a major factor. it's snowing a lot, not much air flying -- drones not able to fly. the ground is full of mud, so ground operations aren't anywhere near what they should be. the russians have tried multiple offensives in the donetsk area, and they have failed miserably to do that. the ukrainians have not had much movement after they failed to, once having achieved the break through of russian lines, they were not able to break out with their armored forces to really gobble up some terrain and get to the sea. that operation failed, and that's the reality of it. they want to come back after they get more equipment and have

a redo of that now know ifing a little bit how difficult it is and how to use better tactics, but they need more equipment and particularly specialized engineer equipment. so they're going to want to replay that again in the spring if they can and put it together. paul: so what are the consequences, in your view, for the war effort by ukraine if the u.s. doesn't come up with the money for additional aid? the administration says as the aid runs out, the weapons money runs out at the end of this month, what would that mean on the battlefield? >> yeah. well, look, the consequences in ukraine are severe and also regionally and strategically. i mean, first of all, hook what we got for it. -- look what we got for it. russia wants ukraine as part of their design to rebuild the russian empire and take also the former soviet states that are now in eastern europe, most of which are part of nato, or they want to weaken the

trans-atlantic alliance by taking ukraine and forcing the united states and the euros the take a knee. but look what we've got for this. the ukrainians stopped them cold. they have not taken the country. the ukrainians have taken back 50 president of the -- 50% of the country that russia took last time, some of what they were able to take in the south this time. 300,000 casualties, the russians have suffered. thousands of vehicles destroyed. half of their ground combat force rendered ineffective. russia pushed back on their heels somewhat with an ability the to recover, to be sure. what a payoff for that. no blood shed by a single american soldier or a european soldier. all done by the ukrainians with american and european commitment.. -- equipment. what a positive return on the investment -- paul: but, general -- >> it's rather significant. paul: but what i keep hearing from if critics is, okay, let's

say we give them $60 billion or $40 billion, whatever the specific amount is, that there's just going to be an endless war here. it's not going to end. what's your response to that? >> no. the ukrainians still have an opportunity to retake territory, and that's what this is about, liberating their territory that russia is occupying, certainly liberating their people, driving as a much of the russians as they can out and also returning to an economy that makes sense. they need access to the sea where they're in control of those ports to the south. and that's why this operation means so much to them. if we stop the funding, paul, russia's going to win. that's the reality of what'll take place. the protracted war favors them. and, look, what people have not to recognize is that if russia wins, so does china and so does iran. these countries, the three of them, operate in their own national interests, to be sure. but what we have got to

recognize e these last five or six years is they're cooperating with each other, and they have all increased their aggression in the last two, three years. i believe because they perceive this administration's leadership as weak, the united states as a in decline, and the yates is somewhat vulnerable -- the united states is somewhat vulnerable if. our military isn't what it has been in the past, and they see an opportunity here. and so you can't say, well, we don't have to fund ukraine because our priority's china. no. they're all related to each other. world war ii did not start immediately, it evolved over time. it took years to become world war ii on multiple regions, multiple continents. i'm not an alarmist. i'm not suggesting that world war iii is here, but i am suggesting that these three countries are more aggressive than we've ever seen. and if we take a knee in ukraine and just walk away like we did in afghanistan, what's going to hatch? aggression is going to -- to happen? aggression is going to increase.

what kind of a world do you really want to live in? do you want the oppressors setting the agenda and the strategic framework with their aggression? we've seen some evidence how that i puts us on the defense these last two to three years. is that the kind of world we want? or do we want to contain this aggression and deter further aggression? that is where we've got to be. and ukraine funding is a part of that strategic framework. it is essential. paul: all right, general jack keane, thanks for clarifying the stakes. appreciate it. when we come back, our panel weighs in on the politics of this funding fight as a republicans demand action on border security in exchange for aid to our allies. so can president biden cut a bipartisan deal before it is too late? ♪ ♪ helps save kids with cancer worldwide. you'll find our treatments and research breakthroughs

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a storm ready wifi device. ♪ >> illegal crossings into our country are at an all-time high, and my democratic colleagues are saying what do we get to secure the border. you get a safer country. paul: that was senate republicans thursday calling on democrats to get serious about negotiating a compromise that includes funding for ukraine and israel. in exchange for measures to secure the southern border. the senate voted wednesday to block $110 billion aid bill that did not include border funding, so will president biden and the democrats now come to the table and make a deal? we're back with dan dan henninger kate bachelor odell, and we're also joined by "wall street journal" columnist allysia finley. so the republicans blocked that vote, blocked the bill with a filibuster in the senate.

now negotiations are back. we don't know where these are headed, but was blocking that bill the right decision, kate? >> well, i think what blocking the bill reveals is i think republicans think they've got a little bit of leverage because the president hasn't stepped up and said let's make a deal. i think what the republican ask is for, one, some changes on asylum law; two, some changes on parole, some discreet fixes on immigration that would make potentially a real difference. and i think that is why you saw them block that bill. i think it was a reality check for the white house. i think october 7th in israel put terrorism back in americans' mind, and so the politics at the border have also changed. so i think there is a natural deal to be done here that would be a bipartisan win for biden and for republicanses, and that's why i think we're seeing an outbreak of optimism that something will get done before the end of the year. paul: allyshia, this is not just about money, this is about real policy changes that the

republicans want. they want to change the definition of the standard to claim asylum. what else is on the table here that they want and will it, as a kate suggests, or really make a difference in. >> so, for instance, they want not just the test that is the initial screening for asylum claim, they also want migrants to have to seek asylum in a safe third country first that they pass through -- paul: like mexico. >> exactly. most importantly, or they want some kind of restrictions on this parole authority that the biden administration has been using to release nearly millions of americans -- paul:. 1.5 million -- >> in just the last two years, and the cbo projects it'll be 4.5 million over the next decade. paul: and why won't democrats go along with that? >> because this is essentially a default that allows people to, essentially, just catch and release, and release into the u.s. so even if the asylum standard is changed, they would still be able to use these parole

authorities to release more migrants into the u.s. paul: is so they really don't want to do anything about the border. that's the implication finish. >> i think that's true about a large faction of the left. paul: dan, are the republicans asking for too much here? the stakes in ukraine are huge. if this whole thing collapses, it's going to be a debacle, in my view, for ukraine, as general keane said. and then the cascading effect on china and the meddle east, i mean, u.s. credibility would be enormous. so when do, what should republicans insist on, and when should they pull back? >> well, i think they should insist on basically the two things we've been talking about, the revision of the asylum rules, and second he, the so-called parole authority which essentially they call it an emergency situation, but it is what allows these migrants to simply come straight into the with country. and those are the two things i think republicans should concentrate on. as to ukraine and israel, look,

we've got an entire congress down there. people get elected to do politics. this is politics, right? at its most intense. these are big issues. and the border has become a central issue in this country. people are coming to -- joe biden put money for the border in the supplemental bill, but it was basically to send more finish hire more people to go down there to process them into the country -- paul: not to stop the anybody from coming in. >> the word has gotten out. they are growing by the thousands by the day coming across the border, and it has created a crisis in cities like chicago and new york city, democratic cities. and as allysia was suggesting it is just the democratic left that won't allow this to happen, and joe biden -- because of the left-wing pressure on him on israel and the left-wing pressure here, seems to be afraid to act. and perhaps he's the one who's putting aid to ukraine and israel at a risk. paul: kate, why do you think the president hasn't been more engaged himself on this? he campaigned in 2020 saying i'm

the guy who can do these kinds of deals. >> well, right now here we are, and where are the deals, right? this is definitely what the public expected from him. i think so far he's concluded he doesn't have to end gauge, that he can roll the republicans, but we saw i think the senate vote collapsed that theory, and now he's got to get involved and get engaged. i would like so -- to see republicans include some stuff on the ukraine side of the package that forced him to make ukraine win. not just hang on through the winterer, but make more progress so we don't get reports like what jack was saying of a really tough slog. i think maybe now start to see some of that engagement, and i think quietly some democrats want it too. surely, some vulnerable senators, it's a national issue, are going to want to cut a deal on the border too, and that's why i think you might see something emerge here in the come coming weeks. paul: democrats are fueling themselves -- fooling themselves if they think republicans will only get the blame if this whole

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♪ paul: with a little over a month to go until the iowa caucuses, four of the republican presidential candidates squared off this week in their fourth debate taking aim at a donald trump as they tried the chip

away at his overwhelming lead in the polls and establish themselves as the main alternative. >> you want to know why those poll numbers are where they are? because folks like these three guys on the stage make it seem like his conduct is acceptable. let me make it clear, his conduct is unacceptable. he's unfit and be careful of what you're going to get if you ever got another donald trump term. >> the idea that we're going to put someone up there that's almost 80 and there's going to be no effects from that, we all know that's not true. so we have an opportunity to do a next generation of leaders and really be able to move this country forward. we also need a president that can serve two terms. >> we have to stop the chaos, but you can't defeat democrat chaos with republican chaos. and that's what donald trump gives us. paul: let's bring back our panel. kyle, what do you think of christie's point that haley and desantis in particular aren't critical enough of donald trump? >> well, he said that he thinks they're afraid of him or they're

auditioning to be in his add a manager, and i don't know that i buy those lines. i think what they're trying to do is make an argument that will be persuasive to trump voters, people who remain his fans despite if it all. of chris christie, for example, said that trump may not be able to vote for hymn in 2024 if he's convicted of a felony, and that got some boos in the audience. it's just a factual statement, but i don't think that's the kind of thing that is persuasive to trump voters. that's why you saw ron desantis saying need a president who's not pushing 80, somebody who can serve two terms. nikki haley 's saying we need a president who is not a bringer of chaos, but somebody who can deliver and execute. and i think those are the arguments that they're trying to get in front of iowans and new hampshire before the voting starts. paul: this is the reality of a second trump term, it certainly wouldn't deliver what you hope could be delivered by the next republican president. kyle made this point, dan, and i want to see if you can elaborate. why isn't the character -- why

isn't the indictment argument against trump working with republican voters? >> well, there's a lot of resentment against the prosecutions. i mean, trump didn't ask to be indicted four times, but they're done that. and if the idea was that it was going to disadvantage him, that has not worked out at all. and i think most voters at this point they look past most of those things. we've had all of this high inflation in the country. the world is in a state of disorder. and i think what people are looking for is a president or a choice that they think can deal with that. i'm not suggesting, because i do think haley and desantis are making good arguments about at the liabilities of a second trump term. but republican voters, i think, are just not being swayed by the character argument or the argument about trump's legal -- that could change next year as

he goes to trial over january 6th in washington. it could change if there's a conviction. but at the moment, it just doesn't seem to be moving republican voters that much. paul: kate, ron desantis says he wants a one on one debate with nikki haley. he clearly thinks the two of them, and the polls suggest, are the leading candidates to be the alternative to donald trump. would you -- do you think that should be a good idea and it's tame for maybe chris christie and ramaswamy to drop out? >> well, i think on the stage it became very clear very quickly that haley and desantis were the ones that should be there, and i think christie you do have to wonder who's leaping on him to drop out. he says he got in this race to stop donald trump from getting the nomination, but if he hangs out until new hampshire, it could help trump lock up the nomination. if he doesn't want that, he should think about that. haley and desantis, i think, attacked each other quite a bit op on issues that were not very edifying like chinese investment in their own states when they largely agree on the issue of china.

so i think, hopefully, someone's getting to them that they're not helping east one of them by attacking each other like that. paul: and deantis is attacking haley saying she's not enough of a fighter whereas desantis, certainly you can't say he isn't a fighter. what to you make of his argument? >> i agree, i think it's unfortunate because they are -- they share -- paul: you agree we desantis' argument? >> no, no, i think it's unfortunate they're aattacking each other because they share principles, on china, for example, they were in this fight over which of them had more chinese investment coming into their state. but they generally agree that china is the biggest threat facing america. maybe they have some disagreements on the exact policy con tours of the way they should respond to it, but i wish they would spend a little bit more time talking about the front-runner, making the argument that they should if be the nominee, not donald trump instead of i should be the nominee, not nikki haley or ron desantis since neither of them is leading the field. paul: kind of the worst case

scenario for each of them is that neither one breaks through to become the main alternative. finish so desantis does real -- finishes second in iowa a, strong second is, and then haley finishes a strong second in new hampshire and then they go into south carolina dieding the vote and trump just walks right through and gets the nomination. >> i think a lot of trump's support no matter how high his numbers are are emotional. people just kind of mad at the democrats, mad at the prosecutors, and they're just sort of taking up and going for trump. i think haley and desantis if they have any chance have got to keep making the argument, especially desantis, the idea of a two-term presidency. conservatives and republicans really do need two consecutive terms, not just one. and as a you get closer to these votes in iowa and new hampshire, make voters think hard about the consequences of the vote for trump because there are downside implications. paul: a lot of downside. still ahead, a contentious

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♪ >> we embrace a commitment to free expression, even of views that are objectionable, offensive, hateful. it's when that speech crosses into conduct that violates our policies against bullying -- our approach to speech is, as i identified, it follows and is guided by the united states constitution. which allows for robust per spentives. >> yes or no, calling for the genocide of jews does not constitute bullying and harassment? >> i have not heard calls for the general sid of jews on our campus. paul: the presidents of harvard, mit and university of pennsylvania faced a grilling on

capitol hill on tuesday on the steps they are taking to combat anti-semitism on their campuses we republican congresswoman elise stefanik pressing the three on when free speech crosses over into intimidation and harassment that violates their schools' codes of conduct and is not protected by the first amendment. let's bring in ilya schaap -- shapiro from the manhattan institute. welcome, ilya. it's already quite something to be able to get the white house press office and elise stefanik to agree on anything -- [laughter] and both of them agree that these college presidents really were awful. what do you -- what did they do wrong? >> yeah. with all their cadre of pr and legal advise ors, that was the best that they could come up with? really kind of a tone deaf performance showing that there are no core values there. they claim to support free speech, but in the past that's

not true given the incidents of cancel culture and punishing and investigating students and professors for so-called my -- microaggressions and using the wrong pronouns. they could have said hate speech is protected by the constitution, but when you chant these slogans in front of the center for jewish life or a jewish student's dorm room or block their path to building, things like that, that's' when it becomes conduct, and that's not protected. or if you disrupt a class or a student organization meeting or a speaker, that is not protected. they could have given that kind of knew answered -- nuanced answer ratherrer than, well, it depends. it's a very bad look. of. paul: why do you think they did that? because the line that you have just expressed makes perfect sense. i mean, obviously, you know, we want free speech in this country, and conservatives have been, in fact, censored on campus. so i'm not so sure that conservatives would want to say, you know, you want these college

presidents determining when you are out of line in a speech. but why didn't they draw that kind of a line? what does it tell you about the mindset of these college presidents? >> well, they're engaged in hand-wringing and trying to please their dei, diversity, equity and inclusion, constituencyies which are the font of a lot of the anti-semitic behavior, the chants that are going on. so, you know, you can imagine if during the, in the aftermath of george floyd's killing, if there had been a rally shouting george floyd got what's coming to him and we should lynch more black people, the reaction would be a little different than what we got in this hearing. so fundamentally, you know, they're just trying to climb the greasy poll and not ec pres any values or -- express any values or leadership as such, and it comes off very poorly in the court of public opinion. paul: but presidents have the authority over dei offices.

i mean, they're supposed to be in charge. whaled they be intimidated by them? and, by the way, is does the faculty also play a role here? >> if the -- the faculty does. they are teaching about post-colonialism and decolonialism and all these sort of obnoxious, postmodern theories about oppressor and oppressed classes, the hierarchies of privilege and all of these short sorts of theories that judge and view everything through identitytarian ledgeses as my colleague, heather macdonald wrote in your pages this week, very good piece on how d everything i is baked in and the font of so much illiberalism on campus. and, you know, so much that even university presidents, provost sos and deans placate those structures because they, you know, they don't want to get canceled themselves or be seen as called out for being racist

or what have you. but the solution that they seem to be drawing in their it rah ative the clarifications of their poor testimony seems to be maybe we need to reimpose speech codes and narrow what's permissible speech which is not the right lesson the draw. the lesson to draw is protect all kinds of speech but crack down and enforce your rules on actual harassment, intimidation can, disruption, etc. paul: all right. let's turn to the case, moore v. united states, which concerns a 2017 provision of the tax reform that something could open the tour to a wealth tax. what's at stake? >> the technical tax provision here is pretty obscure, it's a tax on repatriating income from investments made abroad. this particular couple invested some money in a friend's company in india, did not get any money back, any profits or dividends or anything else, what accounts call realization; that is, they

saw no income, they deny redirect profits anywhere, the company just took them and kept it for themselves. and the question is, can they be taxed on that. and if they can, what's the difference between something like that and, you know, taxing all of us op our retirement accounts when they increase or, for that matter, the appreciation of our homes or, you know, before any sales or anything like that. so that's why the consequences are quite severe, i think, if the government wents -- wins and would open the tour to an elizabeth warren-style finish the door to an blood test-juan style tax on -- paul: briefly, how do you think the oral argument went? some of the conventional wisdom is there's five votes this to uphold the tax provision. >> it comes down to justices kavanaugh and barrett who are cheerily looking for some sort of narrow compromise that will open the door as little as a possible for future wealth taxes. i don't know if that's possible. and the government's theory, apparently, if this goes

through, then already we don't need a new billionaire capital gains, unrealized capital gains tax, the government, the irs already has the authority for it. that's scary. paul: yeah. the solicitor general, actually, more or less conceded that point. will all right. when we come back, john kerry declares war on coal at the united nations' annual climate con fab, but he doesn't stop there as the biden administration expresses support for a fossil fuel phaseout. ♪ ♪ his a1c? it's down with rybelsus®. my doctor told me rybelsus® lowered a1c better than a leading branded pill and that people taking rybelsus® lost more weight. i got to my a1c goal and lost some weight too. rybelsus® isn't for people with type 1 diabetes. don't take rybelsus® if you or your family ever had medullary thyroid cancer, or have multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2,

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taking away those things that are killing people on a daily basis. paul: that was john kerry at the cop28 climate summit in dubai this week calling for an end to coal-fired power plants. but president biden's climate czar is not stopping this with kerry telling reporters on wednesday that the united states supports largely phasing out all fossil fuels. the annual u.n. climate change conference is set to wrap up on tuesday. so, allysia, is john kerry soutd here? doesn't sound like, china, india, africa are heeding his counsel. >> it's interesting if you look at the report that came out last week, it showed that u.s. emissions actually declined by .2 gig tons, and chinese -- gig that -- gigatons, and china's ooh increased by .5 gigatons.

paul: and china isn't stopping right now. it's building more coal plants, right in. >> >> that's right, actually, it's building more coal plants than actually what amounts about 86 million gas-powered cars on the road. and it's actually building these coal plants, ironically, to help back up their solar and wind power. paul: explain that. >> well, the problem is that solar and wind can actually provide cheap energy at the margin, but you still have to back them up -- paul: because they're intermittent. >> and batteries are extremely expense i. but you just can't scale them. so instead, china is building coal plants and emitting more carbon. paul: just like you need a lot of electricity the power electric cars which takes coal or natural gas. kyle, is this whole u.n. climate strategy that kerry is pushing, is -- it's the been going on now for several decades. is it actually working to do anything at all to reduce

climate change? >> well, it's working for john kerry. he gets to go out there and be a grand poobah. i think the reality is that they're setting all these targets that countries are not meeting because the public not allow the politicians in those countries to meet them. and it seems like it's premised on hopes and dreams. john kerry was also out there singing again the praises of nuclear fusion and announcing new research everetts -- efforts with other countries that we could get nuclear fusion to work. i will be in a long line of people ready for that -- [laughter] harnessing the power of the sun, more energy, low cost energy without any bad side effects. but the problem is we're not there yet, and in the meantime, i still don't understand why if coal is the enemy, we don't say look around. in the united states, we have huge quantities of natural gas. we should be frack for it, exporting it to other countries and me -- replacing that coal with american natural gas.

paul: which actually reduces -- >> absolutely. >> there was one new idea at this meeting, and that is that developing countries like india and indonesia are saying we're not going to pay for this. if you want us to move off coal, you are going to have to subsidize it. and john kerry is beginning to argue that the united states should subsidize those projects because that will release private investment. in other words, make this sort of thing bankable. so in other words, the united states is going to continue to subsidize private sector moves in, and that would mean that we could expect the biden administration if there is another biden administration to try to legislate more money to be sent overseas to subsidize to phase out of, and i don't think that's going to be a political winner, paul. paul: allysia, kyle mentioned the net zero policy, climate change policies are running into opposition from voters. why are they to opposed? >> well, because they raise the

cost. in california the praise if -- price of gasoline is about $2 a gallon more than the rest of the country -- paul: and that's a traceable to climate policy? >> yes, cap and trade policy as well as low carbon standard in addition to gasoline taxes. but also electricity prices this are double than the nationwide average. so you pay -- and and you know who's hurt the most is lower income if people. paul: and that's, it's also -- europe is also having, blocking, voters are saying, sorry, we don't want to phase out our agriculture production. we don't want the high prices in the u.k. they're also not passing this stuff. >> right. and they're walking back their ev mandates. and i wouldn't be surprised if you see that in the u.s. where actually in some of these spaces they start to -- you're are already seeing it in new york, where they said they need to main a town the gas-powered plants a little longer, and the democrats in particular are trying to tamp down the political opposition to their

policies. paul: by denying that they're actually trying to phase out evs which, of course, they are trying to do even if they don't quite admit it. all right. we have to take one more break. when we come back, hits and misses of the week. ♪ ♪ no fingersticks needed. manage your diabetes with more confidence. freestyle libre 2. try it for free at freestylelibre.us - bye, bye cough. - later chest congestion. hello 12 hours of relief. 12 hours!! not coughing? hashtag still not coughing?! mucinex dm gives you 12 hours of relief from chest congestion and any type of cough, day or night. mucinex dm. it's comeback season.

time it now for hits and misses of the week. kate, first you. >> paul a bit of a hit and miss to senator tommy tupper bell who ended his blockade on 400 u.s. military promotions. i think the pentagon's outer bands to issue a travel policy underwriting troops getting an abortion. tommy turberville had no plan to leverage essential pro-life victory its goodness he cut his losses before democrats went around him and change the rules. i hope this will be a teachable moment for republicans about these kind of strategies that usually end up failing. >> kyle? what semester the supreme court

a moot result, filed hundreds of lawsuits against her hotel she r planned to visit she was trying to enforce the americans with disabilities act same hotels website did not have accessibility information. can you sue a hotel if you do not have interest in booking a room? that is the question but unfortunately her attorney was sentient she withdrew her case and now the justices say is moot so no answer for it. >> there will be more lawsuits. [laughter] >> this is a miss to the bite administration which forgave another $5 billion in student debt this week. that's about $60000 per borrower for my estimate it has a written off $770 billion from student debt is on pace to forgive all 1.6 in student debt. >> without approval from congress. >> might miss is going to the deflating the balloon known as

electric vehicles we all know about the letter on 3000 automobile dealers center joe biden saying their lots are piling up with unsold vehicles because they are too expensive here's the real sticker shock wall street journal reported this week the average cost to repair an electric vehicle is about $6500. undead takes a long time to get it back, why? because there are no replacement parts. they are very complicated and it's hard to find people who can actually do the repairs it's a new meaning to fender bender. >> oh well, okay. remember if you have your own hit or miss be sure to send it to sj er on fnc. that is it for this week show. thanks to my panel and to all of you for watching. we hope to see you right here next week. arthel: another historic week at the southern border would look alive at eagle pass,